There are so many good old ones no longer printed.
Anyone remember THE LITTLE KING?
Jimmy Hatlo’s THEY’LL DO IT EVERY TIME
THERE AUGHT TO BE A LAW
TARZAN
FLASH GORDON
BUCK ROGERS
Rick O’Shay (Remember the gunman who looked like he stepped out of the movie SHANE?)
The best drawn comic strip was PRINCE VALIANT. You could tell when Hal Foster died as another good artist took over, when he died another good artist also took over, but then the story line became too surreal.
When my mom was a kid some old neighbor hated the si-fi comics. He said that no one would ever get into space! That was all just made up tales and a waste of time!
Some that come on strong and died the death like DAN FLAGG (1966 political cartoon about the US in Veitnam)).
Basil (forgettable)
And way too many others that simply stunk.(DOONESBURY)
I quit reading the comics when Calvin and Hobbes ceased publication.
A lot of those old comics are masterpieces of illustration, just gorgeous pieces of work. It’s a real shame there really isn’t any comparison today, or at least I haven’t seen it. Watterson is a great artist and had his own unique thing going, but even then it isn’t in the realm of some of those guys as far as sheer technical brilliance at illustration. You have to go to actual comic books to find any sort of comparison, and even they are very far and few between, or at least that’s what I have found.
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